FriendFeed: Keeping Track Of Everything Social Even If You Aren’t
FriendFeed is a new kid on the block in the social networking environment but it isn’t strictly a new social network as much as it is a way to keep track of other social networks in one place.
You subscribe to your friends – and whenever they do anything on Amazon Wishlists, Twitter, Pownce, Facebook, Last.fm, YouTube, Digg, or about 20 other networks – you can keep track of it without actually going into each service. There is also an RSS feed to make it even easier for you to keep up to date.
It is becoming common to have accounts in multiple social networks and this helps provide a solution to keeping track of your friends in all of them. On the flip side, if you have no social network accounts then it allows you to keep track of what your friends are doing on other services – like Twitter or Facebook – even though you aren’t a member of those services.
So far I am liking it and it has been useful for keeping up to date with some of my friends – I just have to get my other friends to sign up now. Like many social sites – it is only useful if your friends are there. Luckily, a site like this doesn’t take upkeep because feeding your friends or collecting from them is being done behind the scenes. Hopefully this will prompt others to try it even if they aren’t into participating in social networks themselves.
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I joined, but beyond the joining, I haven’t done much.
There isn’t actually much to do. Once you add your info and subscribe to your friends… that’s pretty much it. I grabbed the RSS feed and that’s it. I’ll go back as people subscribe but otherwise … RSS and I’m done.